As a "reward" for winning all four schools cups in 1961-62, the Baines Grammar teams were taken to Sheffield for the match. I was 14. Poor game, with an experimental forward line of Hellawell, Crowe and Charnley that didn't work. Ray did manage to win the penalty that drew the match.Against France I believe there cant be many who can say that,he was our centre forward when I first started watching The Pool.
Is that a 2 year old Owen Oyston telling them not to install the undersoil heating as the money is better in his pocket?
The pitch still looks better than it did in the final years of the Oyston's reign.
Same picture as post #1?
Pitch looked like that under the Oystons.
Nah not enough sand
Deleted it as this is a better pic
Which we won 4-2 and did the double over them winning away 1-3 - imagine that today !
The game was originally scheduled for Tues 28 Dec but for was brought forward to Xmas Day presumably hoping for a better attendance.
Is that tony Husband cartoonist
Yes it is.
That was a great match, with some great players on the pitch that day. Walsh and Hatton were the best strike pairing I have seen at BFC. I was on the kop that day.
No wonder they say this boy's worth a hundred thousand pounds!
Fantastic quote from Alan Weeks.
I've still got that, I think it was a Gazette publication.
Was the cat in the way
Presumably a colourised photo, as I don't remember the blue pitch.
Our current tactics are more likely to result in a thirty foot trench ten yards either side of the halfway line.Presumably a colourised photo, as I don't remember the blue pitch.
Interestingly, the amount of wear down the centre of the pitch surprises me. In my mind we always had one of the better pitches.
Thats the reflection of the blue sky matePresumably a colourised photo, as I don't remember the blue pitch.
Interestingly, the amount of wear down the centre of the pitch surprises me. In my mind we always had one of the better pitches.
Never seen that picture. Do you know where it was iro Talbot Rd.
The other side of the tracks, parallel to Enfield Rd. Used to walk past it on my way to Claremont School.
yep, good picture. My Nan used to live on Enfield Rd in the 60's so was often down there. Can't remember though if i was tall enough to look over the wall. Houses only being down one side of the road of course.
On the kop that day
Do you know of any record or phjotographs of the purple/blue away versions of these kits? For alll the kits from FH Brown right up to Bass and 1990?
Heavily watered at half time.Presumably a colourised photo, as I don't remember the blue pitch.
Interestingly, the amount of wear down the centre of the pitch surprises me. In my mind we always had one of the better pitches.
They used to store the carriages by the side of Enfield Rd aka our playground as they were never locked. You just had to avoid being seen from the railway hut at the end of the road.
yep, seem to remember that you get into the station area from down an alley on Ashburton Rd.
Envy alert. An A3 Pacific.
